Aroosa Kanwal's Books

Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction

Beyond 9/11

By: A. Kanwal

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction

Beyond 9/11

By: A. Kanwal

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

233

Publisher

Springer

Published Date

ISBN 10

1137478446

ISBN 13

9781137478443

Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction

Beyond 9/11

By: Aroosa Kanwal

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction

Beyond 9/11

By: Aroosa Kanwal

This book focuses on the way that notions of home and identity have changed for Muslims as a result of international 'war on terror' rhetoric. It uniquely links the post-9/11 stereotyping of Muslims and Islam in the West to the roots of current jihadism and the resurgence of ethnocentrism within the subcontinent and beyond. Definitions of home and identity have changed for Muslims as a result of international 'war on terror' rhetoric. This book uniquely links the post-9/11 stereotyping of Muslims and Islam in the West to the roots of current jihadism, the resurgence of different forms of Islam and ethnocentrism within the subcontinent and beyond, and to US realpolitik in order to foreground the effects of terrorism debates on Pakistanis at home and in the diaspora. Through close readings of fiction by Nadeem Aslam, Kamila Shamsie, Uzma Aslam Khan, Mohsin Hamid, Mohammed Hanif, H.M. Naqvi, Ali Sethi, Maha Khan Phillips and Feryal Gauhar, who confront negative attitudes towards Muslims and Islam in the twenty-first century, this book not only challenges the centrality of Western narratives but also foregrounds Anglo-American foreign policy in the Muslim world as a form of terrorism. The author proposes an articulation of a flexible identity among Muslims that is termed a 'global ummah' after 9/11.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

240

Published Date

ISBN 10

1349502308

ISBN 13

9781349502301

Contemporary Pakistani Speculative Fiction and the Global Imaginary

Democratizing Human Futures

By: Shazia Sadaf,Aroosa Kanwal

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Contemporary Pakistani Speculative Fiction and the Global Imaginary

Democratizing Human Futures

By: Shazia Sadaf,Aroosa Kanwal

As the first book-length study of emergent Pakistani speculative fiction written in English, this critical work explores the ways in which contemporary Pakistani authors extend the genre in new directions by challenging the cognitive majoritarianism (usually Western) in this field. Responding to the recent Afro science fiction movement that has spurred non-Western writers to seek a democratization of the broader genre of speculative fiction, Pakistani writers have incorporated elements from djinn mythology, Qur'anic eschatology, "Desi" (South Asian) traditions, local folklore, and Islamic feminisms in their narratives to encourage familiarity with alternative world views. In five chapters, this book analyzes fiction by several established Pakistani authors as well as emerging writers to highlight the literary value of these contemporary works in reconciling competing cognitive approaches, blurring the dividing line between "possibilities" and "impossibilities" in envisioning humanity’s collective future, and anticipating the future of human rights in these envisioned worlds.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

158

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000936929

ISBN 13

9781000936926

Rehumanizing Muslim Subjectivities

Postcolonial Geographies, Postcolonial Ethics

By: Aroosa Kanwal

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Rehumanizing Muslim Subjectivities

Postcolonial Geographies, Postcolonial Ethics

By: Aroosa Kanwal

Rehumanizing Muslim Subjectivities: Postcolonial Geographies, Postcolonial Ethics is a timely and urgent monograph, allowing us to imagine what it feels like to be the victim of genocide, abuse, dehumanization, torture and violence, something which many Muslims in Palestine, Kashmir, Pakistan, Myanmar, Syria, Iraq and China have to endure. Most importantly, the book emphasizes the continued relevance of creative literature’s potential to intervene in and transform our understanding of a conceptual and political field, as well as advanced technologies of power and domination. The book makes a substantial theoretical contribution by drawing on wide-ranging angles and dimensions of contemporary drone warfare and its related catastrophes, postcolonial ethics in relation to the thanatopolitics of slow violence, dehumanization and the politics of death. Against the backdrop of such institutionalized and diverse acts of violence committed against Muslim communities, I call the postcolonial Muslim world ‘geographies of dehumanization’. The book investigates how ongoing legacies of contemporary forms of injustice and denial of subjecthood are represented, staged and challenged in a range of postcolonial anglophone Muslim texts, thereby questioning the idea of postcolonial ethics. One of the selling points of this book is the chapters on fictional representations by Muslim Myanmar and Uyghur writers as, to the best of my knowledge, no critical work or single authored book is available on Myanmar and Uyghur literature to date.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

119

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Published Date

ISBN 10

1003835686

ISBN 13

9781003835684

Contemporary Pakistani Speculative Fiction and the Global Imaginary

Democratizing Human Futures

By: Shazia Sadaf,Aroosa Kanwal

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Contemporary Pakistani Speculative Fiction and the Global Imaginary

Democratizing Human Futures

By: Shazia Sadaf,Aroosa Kanwal

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

158

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000936929

ISBN 13

9781000936926

Book's by Aroosa Kanwal

Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction

Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction

Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction

Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction

Contemporary Pakistani Speculative Fiction and the Global Imaginary

Contemporary Pakistani Speculative Fiction and the Global Imaginary

Rehumanizing Muslim Subjectivities

Rehumanizing Muslim Subjectivities

Contemporary Pakistani Speculative Fiction and the Global Imaginary

Contemporary Pakistani Speculative Fiction and the Global Imaginary

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email